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“Microsoft late last week said it won’t patch Windows XP for a pair of bugs it quashed Sept. 8 in Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.”

“We’re talking about code that is 12 to 15 years old in its origin, so backporting that level of code is essentially not feasible,” said security program manager Adrian Stone during Microsoft’s monthly post-patch Webcast, referring to Windows 2000 and XP.”

“The bugs in question are in Windows’ implementation of TCP/IP, the Web’s default suite of connection protocols. All three of the vulnerabilities highlighted in the MS09-048 update were patched in Vista and Server 2008. Only two of the trio affect Windows Server 2000 and Windows XP, Microsoft said in the accompanying advisory, which was refreshed on Thursday.”

Major       Minor
Version     Version     RTM     Name
1           .01                 Windows 1.01

2           .03                 Windows 2.03
            .1                  Windows 2.1
            .11                 Windows 2.11

3           .0                  Windows 3.0
            .1                  Windows 3.1
            .1          528     Windows NT 3.1
            .11                 Windows for Workgroups
            .5          807     Windows NT 3.5
            .51         1057    Windows NT 3.51

4           .0          950     Windows 95
            .0                  Windows 95 OSR2
            .0          1381    Windows NT 4.0
            .10         1998    Windows 98
            .10         2222    Windows 98 SE
            .90         3000    Win ME

5           .0          2195    Windows 2000
            .1          2600    Windows XP
            .2          3790    Win Server 2003

6           .0          6000    Windows Vista
            .0          6001    Win Server 2008
            .1          6001    Windows Vista SP1
            .1          6002    Windows Vista SP2
            .1          7000    Windows 7 Beta

7           .0                  Windows Azure (Cloud OS)

So what does this all mean?  Windows 7 Beta is not the next version of Windows OS, it is merely a new "Build" of Windows Vista.  The Next Big Thing in Windows is still unknown, unless you consider Windows Azure (the cloud computing OS).